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Infographic: the chemistry of Sauvignon Blanc

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 jamiegoode 9215 Views Sauvignon Blanc

It’s Sauvignon Blanc day! Here’s a nice infographic from the Bragato Research Institute on the chemistry of Sauvignon Blanc: [Just

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Features TOP STORIES Wine Science 

The latest on mouse, the wine taint of our times

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 jamiegoode 40889 Views

Mouse taint (mousiness) is a wine fault that I’d not experienced until a few years ago. Now it seems to

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Ropiness in wine, a new fault for me

April 19, 2020April 20, 2020 jamiegoode 30845 Views wine fault

There are faults you read about but you’ve never experienced. Here I experience ropiness for the first time, in a

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‘Tressage’: an alternative to hedging vines, that claims to have some benefits

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 jamiegoode 19875 Views Viticulture

In viticulture, a widely practiced form of leaf removal is hedging of the canopies, taking off the developing shoots at

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Features South Africa Wine Science 

In the Swartland with Eben Sadie (1): the vineyard

April 7, 2020June 14, 2021 jamiegoode 11647 Views swartland, Viticulture

Over the last 20 years (first vintage 2000), Eben Sadie has established himself as one of South Africa’s leading winegrowers.

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Frost protection using sprinklers: how it really works

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 jamiegoode 17246 Views

The PR agency working for Maison Joseph Drouhin recently send out some pictures of frost protection in their Chablis vineyard

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Wine science: powdery mildew, the wine world’s biggest problem

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 jamiegoode 21195 Views

Anyone who’s ever tried to grow grape vines without spraying them will probably have come across powdery mildew. It’s the

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Wine Science 

Drosophila suzukii, the bad fruit fly

March 22, 2020 jamiegoode 9619 Views

The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a common feature around wineries at harvest. These tiny flies seem to get

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Sulfur, sulfites and sulfides: a primer

March 7, 2020June 28, 2021 jamiegoode 21637 Views

Pictured above: Vancouver harbour has a famous sulfur pile. It’s stored here after arriving as a by product of oil

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Video: minerality in wine, a conversation with Steve Daniel and Jamie Goode

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 jamiegoode 11292 Views

This is a film of a seminar I did last week (January 2020) with Steve Daniel, who is the buying

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Viña González Bastías, Maule Valley, Chile: exciting naturally made wines from an amazing old vineyard

September 25, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.vinosgonzalezbastias.com/ Jose Luís Bastías and Daniela Lorenzo are custodians of a remarkable six-hectare vineyard in Chile’s Maule Valley planted

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya
Features Latest Spain 

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya

September 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen
Features Germany Latest 

Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen

September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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